THE URGENT GALL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2587, 8 October 1915, Page 4

THE URGENT GALL

WHAT HEED? MILITARY MAN DOUBTS PRESENT METHODS DISTRICT DEPORTS Yesterday thirty-one recruit?'landed . T? ap ® r? W'&crpiipg :•/ Office, riiejq iei stjjj 3n urgent, demand for' men in the City, particularly 'for in- , fantry and mounted men. Ono branch which ,s hopelessly overfull is the hospital ship. Ilio cry for fighting men is not local; it is spread over the whole countrj, end though the answer to the' call could be better here, the response is not so poor as in some otjier plaws. land "TV' stem inAuck- ?= ff Pt'mulate recruiting there, but its effecti is not yet evident. Appeals tk o -rf' howevo !> are coneid- ■ tof Suits. y to have oxcel '

tl.?fnflI :6 R^ e ? that for the lGth Eeinforcemont6, which go into" • camp on November 14, the Auckland ' military district will .require to find an-' proximately 1200 infantrymen and' 450 mounted rifles. For the 11th Reinforcemerits, winch will be raised two months later, similar numbers will bo needed from the north. . ■ / On Tuesday evening the Officer Commandmg the Auckland district (Colonel' iL -r M t7 addressed l a gathering in the Town Hall and appealed, for more Won, He said: "More men are urgently required to enrol in the cause of duty. Now it |iag struck, me on mlmv oceaaSlC j ror l,ot present • method? adopted ,is to enlistment are altogether as sound as they might bo. Is it Me y that some men have enlist- ■ "It , e myeelf that they, have-who in. the interests of the country should have stayed at home and w6fk- - ed? Now, ! often eeo.raon who I con-' sider should undoubtedly ,g<v s nd I sometimes soo men who are Brimful of patriotism and most desirous to go, 'but ? 'i. myself,; ought' not :to be called to go until, more suitable men are absorbed. We,, under the methods we have adopted, are taking married men with, families, and ; thereby placinc great liabilities on tbe State, while there is still available an enormous num- r ' ber of unmarried man without family; It is to those' latter men whom : I wish to appeal to-night. I ask those men to go and register their names aa soon as possible." ' Serious Position" is the heading in which the'Christchurch "Sun" sums up the situation, in Christahurch, Details, of-the position are give'i thus in ■ Wednesday's issue:—"Tho" call for recruits is not being heeded in Christcjiuroh as it should be. .Yesterday only six ■ men : registered at. the C.D.C. recruiting bureau, and there were only eight to-day, up to' 3 p.m. The position at the Defence area group office is " slightly 12 ir'en>having regis-' tared there. to-day, Last evening > 69 men presented themselves for' medical examination,' That was;' the .'largest' number for some, time. • Twenty-nine of the men satisfied the doctors. Half of the others were classed a/v temporar- , ily unfit. These proportions are m ac- ' cordance with the usual percentage. The position is serious, and /demands a ■ greatly increased rate, of; registration. Thirty men are needed to complete. Can? terbury's quota, for the. reinforcements for the Trenthani Regiment, to : leave to go into camp next Monday , evening. For the ■ 9th Reinforcements,. who will' go into camp in a fortnight, 160 infantry and about .30 mountednienara noeded,. The; reinforcements for the ' other branches of the services are filled ! up. The. great need is for,infantry, , but" men are •still applying for service in other units," f. The Wellington men who returned their papers yesterday are:— . F. J. R. Heath, Public :Works Department,; Karaka Bay.. ,' , ' -rB; Barker, labourer, City. ■' . A. C. Fulton, merchant,, City.. / H. Whaler, seaman, .City. V. J. Hall, dentist, City, . : E. Bertram,-busbman, Upper Hutt. George Palmer, machinist, Citjy . Thomas W, Allace, labourer, City. George l F. Parsons, Civil Servant, Lower Hutt. • * William Stevenson,; wharf labourer, , Newtown. J. R. B. Harwood, labourer, City. Robert L. Brown, labourer, City. John F. Whitman, driver, City :■ Bertie Pettefer, driver/ City.-/ ■ ■ Daniel Dennehy, plumber,.; Lower", .. Hutt. ■ ■ A. B. King, hospital attendant, New- v. town. • ' - , Daniel M'Gill,""■'hairdresser, ; oity.,.\ C. H. Vasey, seedsman, City. . Joseph T. Keats., labourer, Newtown. ~ Sidney R. Hall, billiafrd-marker, City. .. H. V. Stevenson, law clerk;; City. Stanley P. Day,, audit examiner, City*. ; Albert J. Hill, driver, City. Charles Gordon Masters, etoreman, Island Bay. ' . K. Ml Cole, .warehousemen, Citj;: Thomas Charles Chegwidden, painter, Berhampore. Herbert D., Wyatt. clerk, City. Alfred Seamor, builder. Newtown. ~J. W. Telford, elerk. Newtown. J Arthur, R. Harman,-' cook's; mate, :' City. ■■.'■■■ '■"> '' Arthur V. Johanson, boilermaker, City. : , v- ; ' -